The Post's half-hearted apology claims "Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon - even as the opportunists seek to make it something else." Which "sometime" is that time, and which isn't? If editorial cartoonism prides itself (perhaps self-indulgently) on anything, it is the layers of meaning employed. Clearly it is not just me who has a hard time reading this layer as anything but employing the wel-worn racist metaphor of "black as ape"...?
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